Digest year-ender
for domestic stories for month of September, 2018
Sept
1: New Delhi: Jain monk Tarun Maharaj died in the early hours Saturday at east
Delhi's Radhapuri Jain Temple. He was 51.
Sept
2: Srinagar: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Sunday reviewed the security
situation in Kashmir during a visit to the valley, and army officials briefed
her on the operational preparedness and counter-infiltration grid.
Sept
3: New Delhi: Over 1,400 people, including 488 in Kerala, have lost their lives
due to rains, floods and landslides in 10 states so far in the monsoon season,
the Home Ministry said Monday.
Sept
4: New Delhi: Putting to rest all speculation, Chief Justice of India Dipak
Misra Tuesday recommended to the Centre that Justice Ranjan Gogoi be his successor,
eight months after he was part of a revolt against the country's top judge.
Sept
5: New Delhi: Thousands of farmers and labourers from across the country held a
massive protest in the national capital on Wednesday against what they called
"anti-people" policies of the Modi government, and demanded higher
prices for farm produce, waiver of loans and better wages.
Sept
6: New Delhi: Consensual gay sex is not a crime, the Supreme Court ruled
Thursday, striking down a British era law that it said violates the right to
equality and triggering celebrations among LGBTQ activists who welcomed it as a
harbinger of a more inclusive India.
Sept
7: New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday pitched for investments in
manufacturing of electric vehicles and smart charging facilities as he
emphasised that better mobility can boost growth.
Sept
8: Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has constituted a high-level committee
to probe into irregularities in the recruitment examination held for 68,500
assistant teachers and suspended a top official of exam regulatory authority,
officials said Saturday.
Sept
9: New Delhi: Setting the tone for the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi said Sunday he sees "no challenge" to the BJP and
described unity efforts among opposition parties "unable to stand each
other" as a proof of his government's popularity and his party's big
success.
Sept
10: New Delhi: Sporadic incidents of violence were reported Monday during a
Congress-led opposition sponsored 'Bharat Bandh' against spiralling fuel prices
that disrupted normal life mainly in Bihar, Kerala, Karnataka, Assam and
Odisha.
Sept
11: New Delhi: An ED investigation has found that absconding jeweller Mehul
Choksi diverted over Rs 3,250 crore funds, allegedly defrauded from a PNB
branch in Mumbai, to foreign shores and he was in business of "highly
inflating" prices of precious metals sold from his outlets.
Sept
12: New Delhi: Notwithstanding the boycott announced by the National Conference
(NC) and the PDP, the Centre is likely to go ahead with the panchayat and urban
local bodies elections in Jammu and Kashmir as it feels that grassroots
democracy must get precedence over any other consideration, officials said
Wednesday.
Sept
13: New Delhi: The negotiations for procurement of 126 Rafale jets under the
UPA government fell through as state-run HAL did not have the required
capability to produce the jets in India in collaboration with French company
Dassault Aviation, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Thursday.
Sept
14: Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh government has closed the investigation into a
disproportionate assets complaint filed against BJP leader and former chief
minister Prem Kumar Dhumal in 2015, on the recommendation of the state
vigilance and anti-corruption bureau, officials said. Sept 15: Srinagar: Urban
local bodies elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be conducted in four phases
starting October 8, state election commission has said.
Sept
16: Sriharikota (AP): The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today
launched the NovaSAR and S1-4 earth observation satellites of U.K from the
spaceport here and placed them in the designated orbit.
Sept
17: Mumbai: Petrol price continued its upward spiral in the megapolis--where
the fuel is the costliest among the major metros--with Monday's retail price
pegged at Rs 89.44 a liter, up from 89.29 Sunday, and diesel selling at Rs
78.33, up 17 paise.
Sept
18: Jaipur: In a first, polling in all 200 constituencies in the upcoming
Rajasthan assembly elections would be conducted through Voter Verifiable Paper
Audit Trail (VVPAT) and EVM M-3 machines, Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat
said Tuesday.
Sept
19: Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Assembly passed seven bills on the second and
concluding day of the monsoon session Wednesday, including a bill raising
salaries of the lawmakers.
Sept
20: Balasore (Odisha): India successfully test-fired its indigenously developed
surface-to-surface short-range tactical ballistic missile 'Prahaar' from the
Odisha coast Thursday amid heavy rains.
Sept
21: New Delhi: Barely 24 hours after agreeing to the engagement, the government
Friday called off a meeting between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan
in New York, citing the brutal killings of three policemen in Jammu and Kashmir
and Islamabad releasing postage stamps "glorifying" Kashmiri militant
Burhan Wani.
Sept
22: New Delhi: As former French president Francois Hollande's claim on the
Rafale deal fuelled a massive political row, the government Saturday asserted
it did not have any role in the selection of Reliance Defence as a partner for
Dassault while France said it was in "no manner" involved in the
choice of any Indian industrial associate for the contract.
Sept
23: Ranchi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi rolled out the Pradhan Mantri Jan
Arogya Yojana (PMJAY)-Ayushman Bharat from here Sunday, and termed it a
"game-changer initiative to serve the poor".
Sept
24: Pakyong (Sikkim): Dedicating Sikkim's first airport at Pakyong to the
nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday his government is committed to
make the Northeast an "engine of India's growth story" and lamented
the "slow pace" of development work in the region under the previous
governments.
Sept
25: New Delhi: Observing criminalisation of politics is a bitter manifest truth
and a "termite" to the citadel of democracy, the Supreme Court
Tuesday left it to Parliament to bar those facing trial for heinous and
grievous offences from contesting elections by enacting a "strong
law".
Sept
26: New Delhi: Observing that 'Aadhaar' neither tends to create a
"surveillance state" nor it infringed the Right to Privacy, the
Supreme Court Wednesday declared that the Centre's biometric identity project
was constitutionally valid but limited the scope, ruling it is not mandatory
for bank accounts, mobile connections or school admissions.
Sept
27: New Delhi: Adultery is no longer a crime in India, the Supreme Court ruled
Thursday as it struck down the colonial-era law, dubbing it "archaic"
and "unconstitutional" and saying it treated women as a
"chattel" and denuded them of their "sexual autonomy".
Sept
28: Jodhpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday inaugurated “Parakram Parv”
exhibition at the military station here to mark the second anniversary of the
surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Army across the LoC.
Sept
29: Chandigarh: Senior SAD leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa
Saturday resigned as the party's secretary general and from its core committee,
citing health reasons.
Sept
30: New Delhi: Subsidised cooking gas (LPG) price Sunday hiked by Rs 2.89 per
cylinder to Rs 502.4 per cylinder.
(Source PTI)
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